Jill Magid’s Light Saber

In the group exhibition “Junkies’ Promises,” at New York’s Paul Kasmin Gallery, the artist cuts into the mind of a killer.

Pinning a page from a book on the psychology of murder to the wall, the artist Jill Magid’s glowing bayonet asks: Is the path from violent thought to violence as straight as the blade? One might hope, at least, that it’s not so well-lit.